246 Quotes by Elif Shafak

Whether you have children, write books, sell pastries on the street or sign million-dollar business contracts, what matters is to be happy and fulfilled inside. Are you?

عرفت الآن أن الحياة نفسها يمكن أن تبدو في بعض الأحيان أشبه بشيء مبتذل

По широкия свят има повече лъжливи водачи и неистински учители, отколкото са звездите във видимия небосвод. Не допускай грешката да смяташ за свои наставници потъналите в себе си властолюбци. Истинският духовен учител няма да насочи към себе си вниманието си и няма да очаква от теб пълно подчинение и възхищение, а ще ти помогне да оцениш истинското си “Аз” и да му се възхитиш. Истинските наставници са прозрачни като стъкло. Те оставят Божията Светлина да минава през тях.

Like all women who lose their naturalness as soon as they become conscious of the admiration they arouse in others, she too assumed a forced toughness and made the common mistake of thinking that keeping a guy waiting in purgatory, neither too much at a distance nor needlessly close, would render permanent the attention she received.

Ayshin's love is like the helm of bureaucracy. She files her correspondence, makes calculations, keeps records, deducts the expenses from the income and thus maintains a colossal archive. She never forgets a quarrel; not only does she not forget, she makes sure it is not forgetten as well.

He is a man of many lands and many names, but no native soil. Perhaps he carries his hometown on his back, like an ageless turtle.

How could they be so certain of the superiority of their truths when they knew so little, if anything at all, about other cultures, other philosophies, other ways of thinking?

تمر المرأة خلال حياتها بمراحل إنتقالية صعبة. والعبور من مرحلة إلى أخرى ليس سهلًا كما قد يبدو، إذ تحتاج الكثير من المساعدة والدعم والنصيحة قبل أن تعود بأكملها إلى الحياة فى الزمن الحاضر مرة أخرى. تمر أوقات تتعثر فيها آلة جسدها ويصيبها العطب.وتلك هى الحكمة القديمة والبسيطة التى لا نعيرها انتباهًا فى سعينا لنكون قويات وناجحات وفى أوج كمالنا طوال الوقت .

قاعدة أخريإن الطريق الي الحقيقة يمر من القلب لا من الرأس فأجعل قلبك لا عقلك دليللك الرئيسي واجه , تحد , وتغلب في نهاية المطاف علي " النفس " بقلبكإن معرفتك بنفسك ستقودك الي معرفة الله